What is the difference between enterprise and ultimate?
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A company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor.
An undertaking or project, especially a daring and courageous one.
A willingness to undertake new or risky projects; energy and initiative.
an active participation in projects
To undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.
To undertake; to begin and attempt to perform; to venture upon.
* Dryden
* T. Otway
To treat with hospitality; to entertain.
* Spenser
Final; last in a series.
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(of a syllable) Last in a word or other utterance.
Being the greatest possible; maximum; most extreme.
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Being the most distant or extreme; farthest.
That will happen at some time; eventual.
Last in a train of progression or consequences; tended toward by all that precedes; arrived at, as the last result; final.
* Coleridge
Incapable of further analysis; incapable of further division or separation; constituent; elemental.
The most basic or fundamental of a set of things
The final or most distant point; the conclusion
The greatest extremity; the maximum
(uncountable) The sport of ultimate frisbee.
As nouns the difference between enterprise and ultimate
is that enterprise is a company, business, organization, or other purposeful endeavor while ultimate is the most basic or fundamental of a set of things.As a verb enterprise
is to undertake an enterprise, or something hazardous or difficult.As a adjective ultimate is
final; last in a series.enterprise
English
(wikipedia enterprise)Alternative forms
* enterprize (chiefly archaic) * entreprise (chiefly archaic)Noun
(en noun)- The (GSEs) are a group of financial services corporations which have been created by the United States Congress.
- A micro-enterprise is defined as a business having 5 or fewer employees and a low seed capital.
- Biosphere 2 was a scientific enterprise aimed at the exploration of the complex web of interactions within life systems.
- He has shown great enterprise throughout his early career.
Synonyms
* initiativeDerived terms
* enterprising * commercial enterprise * scientific enterpriseVerb
(enterpris)- (Alexander Pope)
- The business must be enterprised this night.
- What would I not renounce or enterprise for you!
- Him at the threshold met, and well did enterprise .
ultimate
English
Adjective
(wikipedia ultimate) (-)- the ultimate pleasure
- the ultimate disappointment
- Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.
- those ultimate truths and those universal laws of thought which we cannot rationally contradict
- an ultimate constituent of matter